Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.